Well…I guess I have to resign myself that it is never going to rain out here again…80% chance of rain forecast overnight and not a damn drop…and now nothing in the forecast for another two weeks…and that will make it 5 weeks without rain…at least I won’t have to mow the lawn…want to get on the bike by 7am to get the day started and have three rides in by 10am…have less than 200 miles to ride to beat my all time record so that should happen by the end of next week…slept okay even with the heat last night and the little fan my daughter left me really helps…probably should just take the AC unit out of the window since I haven’t used it at all this summer…and it’s going to be 90 today so we’ll see later today…might just try it tonight to get rid of the humidity…have more leftovers to use today and for the next few days so no cooking again…chicken burritos and soup looks like the meals for today…it’s 71 degrees already today and sticky humid so the rides are going to be a chore just like yesterday…might have to put electrolytes in all of the water bottles to deal with the heat today…so, I should get going and get myself sunscreened and pour the rest of the coffee down…more later…
New wipers on the car!
Well…if you’ve been here a while, you know that little things make me happy…and today that little thing was going out to Menards and getting a new pair of windshield wipers and putting them on the car…the Michelin ones that were on it had started to melt and stick to the windshield and leave huge marks at the end of the strokes…they were actually sticky to the touch and were leaving behind material when they were parked…had to take a plastic teflon scrubber and soap to get all of the residue off the glass…in all of my years of driving, I’ve never seen wipers start to melt before…so I washed the car after that for the first time in two months…it appears that the 100 spf sunscreen is going to work since I was out in the sun 3 hours and just a little pink from it…but now, every time I put the top down on the car, I’m going to have to use at least 50 sunscreen as I did today just for the 10 minute drive over to Menards and back…but I know I was going to wash the car and that takes about a half hour so I needed it…went over 5,900 miles on the bike today so less than two hundred miles to break my all time record and then every day makes a new one…legs held up okay but I did eat some toast and PB in between the first and second ride to make sure of it…okay, need to do the weight work right now…
Has Putin given up on idiot boy?
Well…with the news of the largest prisoner swap since WWII between the US and Russia, the thing that my mind went straight to was “has putin given up on trump?” Why would he give Joe Biden and Kamala Harris a win that they can use to their benefit in the election this fall? Unless he sees what is happening here in the US with the entire dem party getting behind Harris and the enthusiasm is off the charts as is the fundraising…and the polls have started to change with a bright spot of Kamala being ahead here in Michigan by 10 points and pulling even in every other swing state…and that is before the convention that normally gives the candidate a nice bounce…now, getting these Americans who have been illegally detained for years released is a good thing…but there is always a reason for putin doing anything and I think he has given up on trump…it’s about time…geez…
August 1st
Well…man, it was a warm day yesterday and it’s going to be another one today, tomorrow, and Saturday with temps nearing 90 every day…so it looks like a time to hunker down here and get the rides in by 10 every day…and that means getting on the bike in 20 minutes…the 100 sunscreen seems to be working since I was out in the sun for 3 hours yesterday and just got a little pink…it’s already almost 70 at 6:25 am so I think the rides will be in survival mode for the next few days…got a bunch done yesterday and I need to go out and get some new wiper blades for the car today since the ones on it are falling apart and leaving marks on the windshield…and I may wash the car today with it so dusty…and I may start taking the garden out today since it has stopped giving me anything usable…oh, well…containers next year…slept okay last night but I wonder if I ate enough yesterday to support three rides today? Is a bowl of soup and a chicken burrito enough? Yeah, I know the answer to that and will have to try to do better today…have leftovers so I don’t have to cook until Sunday…damn, need to get on the bike in 10 minutes so I need to get going…more later…
Last one for the month..
Well…almost forgot to come here for this last one for the month…man, it was a physically taxing day today with the heat and humidity that was here from the first ride at 7am…it felt like I was breathing liquid out on the second ride..oh, and I only did two rides today with mowing and feeding the lawn and trimming a bunch of tree branches…I was so worn out after that and doing the grocery runs this morning, I thought it would not be smart to do a third ride at around 1pm when it was 84 and humidity was still almost 70%…I was already soaked through everything I was wearing by then and really didn’t want to get more dehydrated…so took the afternoon off and just got everything I’ve been ignoring done…so, I need to read a bit since it’s getting late in the aft…and I still have my teeth to do…darn…
The 2025 project is not going away…
Well…not that the media has picked up on and started to report on the fascism that the 2025 project it includes, the repubs are doing their best to try to convince people that they are abandoning it but it’s all a lie…there are still hundreds of people working behind the scenes to implement it even if the idiot trump loses…so to us on the left, we need to keep the details in the spotlight…like they want to fire all of the government employees who were the bulwark against the worst excesses of trump and his minions and replace them all with trump loyalists to ensure that nothing good happens for the people anymore…it’s just another spin on the theme that the government can’t do anything right especially when unqualified repubs are put in jobs that need expertise…then they point and say “see, government doesn’t work” so then they cut everything that benefits workers and protect their health and the environment…that is a big part of the 2025 project…to get rid of all regulations that protect us and make us vulnerable to the whims of big corporations…and that’s just part of it…and it is very much alive…geez…
July 31st
Well…damn, how can I be running late already today? Have to get on the bike in 10 minutes and haven’t even had any coffee yet…so I need to gt in gear and get moving…slept okay last night but it’s going to be hot today and tomorrow so tonight could be a rough night…going to get to 90 the next couple of days and with the 95% humidity out here it’s going to be uncomfortable…going to try to mow the lawn today and get the last of the summer food on it before the storms that are coming in overnight…I forgot to spray my face with the 100 sunscreen yesterday and got a little red but I won’t do that again today…and I need to do the grocery run after the first ride then two more rides and the yard work so it’s going to be a busy morning…my thumb still barely hurts and I’ll take that any day and my back may be healing up some after two months…fingers crossed…nope…just picked up my coffee cup and it hurts again…crap…not much to do today…ha,ha…that made me laugh…going to start running in 5 minutes and hope to be done for the day by noon…but it looks more like 1 pm….man, I’m going to be worn out…more later…
Not too busy today…
Well…today was not too busy but I did get some things done so I don’t feel bad about that…got the three rides in before 10 or so and then did the weed walk since I had weeds near the front of the house that needed to be taken care of…then I didn’t do much until I grilled some chicken and pork loin and had dinner early…still have the compression socks on to try to keep the swelling down and it is working some but not enough…looks like I’ll have to take a month or so off of cocktails to fix it…but not tonight…probably tomorrow…oh, well…I did get my absentee ballot in today and rode past the big old house that had just been moved to a new lot for the third time just about a block from here…we did get some rain out here yesterday and overnight but that’s not going to save the lawn…it is supposed to rain tomorrow but if it doesn’t I’m going to start taking the garden and perennials out at the back of the house….so I can put it out next week…it was so damn humid out here today that I’ve been sweating like crazy all day…and I was so flat on the first ride that I had to come back here and eat something before the second ride or I wouldn’t have made it though it….so I ate a lot today…for me…to try to avoid that tomorrow…okay, want to read a bit before I settle in for the night…
A criminal conspiracy?
Well…as we saw in real time, there was a conspiracy against Joe Biden by all of the major news media in this country that got him to drop out of the race…and now a few of the dems in the House are talking about holding hearings if they take back the house this fall to see if it was a criminal conspiracy where the billionaire owners of the media actually colluded to lie about Joe…now that would be a good use of hearings in the house…but it needs to go farther than that…the house needs to look at the consolidation in the news industry where the murdochs own way too many newspapers and tv so they can actually make what is news and not just report it…and goes for sinclair, too…and we need to go back to the days when you could get fined for lying on tv or any other media…and don’t give me the bullshit that lying is protected by the first amendment…there can be limits to what the first amendment protects such as hate speech…geez…
July 30th
Well…damn, I had to go back to compression socks last night with my right foot way too swollen by the heat and being on my feet a lot yesterday…better this morning but I am pretty tired of it…slept okay last night but I’m pretty worn out today as I am almost every day until the coffee starts to work…just poured the first cup at 6:30 and need to get on the bike in about 15 minutes but there is no urgency today…we did get some rain yesterday that lasted about an hour but I don’t think that will help the lawn at all…better than no rain but we need hours of rain to help it survive…have my fingers crossed that we’ll get some over the next few days…going to do a weed walk today with having some pop up in the front…going to test the 100 sunscreen today to see if that is enough to keep me from scorching…it was tough spending 11 bucks for a small spray bottle but I had to do that…I did make potato soup yesterday and I need to grill some chicken thighs today and I may even take some pork loin fillets out of the freezer to go with it…damn, 5 minutes until the bike and I need to get going…more later…